Quotes About Insight

What truly differentiates the heavies from the lightweights is not how tough they are, but how aware they are.

Immaginare non è rifiutare quel che c'è per scappare da un'altra parte, è invece saper leggere, vedere, ascoltare, riconoscere, paesaggire, dare un nome e un peso a quello che c'è per capire meglio cosa manca e cosa si rischia.

Todos los hombres pueden caer en un error; pero sólo los necios perseveran en él

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.

As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: What is his point of reference here? But begin with yourself: examine yourself first.

Look at the past—empire succeeding empire—and from that, extrapolate the future: the same thing. No escape from the rhythm of events. Which is why observing life for forty years is as good as a thousand. Would you really see anything new?

Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their minds.

Then where is harm to be found? In your capacity to see it. Stop doing that and everything will be fine.

The opinion of 10,000 people is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

He who has seen the present has seen everything, that which happened in the most distant past and that which will happen in the future.

To enter others' minds and let them enter yours.

Learn to ask of all questions, 'Why are they doing that?' Starting with your own.

Don't look at things the way wrong-doers do. Don't look at things as wrong-doers want you too, either. Instead, strive to see things in truth, as they really are.

61. To enter others' minds and let them enter yours.

He blind, who cannot see with the eyes of his understanding.

and to foresee things a long way off

53. Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their minds.

Look in, let not either the proper quality, or the true worth of anything pass thee, before thou hast fully apprehended it.

A man must learn a great deal to enable him to pass a correct judgement on another's acts.

38. Look into their minds, at what the wise do and what they don't.

To pierce and penetrate into the estate of every one's understanding that thou hast to do with: as also to make the estate of thine own open, and penetrable to any other.

Medita en los principios rectores de otros[260], de qué huyen y qué persiguen.

Thou canst begin a new life! See but things afresh as thou usedst to see them; for in this consists the new life.